Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-01
FRONT ELEVATION.

FRONT ELEVATION.
hall may be used as one room, it may be iso-
lated to any degree desirable. 1t would be
entirely possible to separate the two by
means Of sliding doors, in which event
the opening from the room into the
passage would have to be a little
narrower than shown on the drawings. This
o could be used as the office Of aphysi-
clan, or of a gentleman who did more or less
business at home, by making the front vesti-
bule about six inches deeper. A separate en-
trance could be provided. III this event, a
door from the room into the passage leading
to the living. part of the house would be a
necessity. The circular bay end OF CHS room
would present an attractive feature. The
windows in this part OF the room might be
placed about four feet from the floor, in
which event book shelves could be arranged
below them. The window in front goes to
within seventeen inches of the floor. Under
the stairway and leading from this reception
room IS a very liberal closet, which would
render this room much more hebitable. III
this closet there should be a small window.
Leading from the passage is the stairway,
two closets and two places which may be
used for a hat rack. One might be used for
3 hat rack and the other for an umbrella
Btand-as to the closets, one for the gentle
men OF tne house and the other by the ladies.
The one nearest the stairway would probably
be chosen for the former. In 1t might be
placed overshocs, coats, hats. etc. Thus the
hall win be comparatively free from every
thing excepting that belonging to visitors or
callers. a. closet TO be used by the ladies
alone will never be fully appreciated until
they have the use of such a one. And then, to
use a connlon expression, sthey ~couldGhardly
understand how they ever kept house without
IT. The little passage in which this closet Is
placed Is separated from the hall by a door.
There Is anothsr door leading out Of this
passage into the kitchen. Thus there are two
doors between the kitchen and the front part
of the house. This arrangement has in mind
the isolation Of the kitchen from the other
rooms In q way to prevent the passage Of the
usual kitchen pdors.
While the stairways In this house are con.
venient and easy of construction, there is d
certain amount of complication in their mr..
rangement which makes them difficult Of de
scription SO as to be understood by those moi
accustomed to examining floor plans. For
this reason / will consider myself fortunate il
! make myself understood BY all alike. In
the first place, there is the stairway from tbs
front hall to the floor above and out from
the kitchen to the landing OF the front stair.
way, and another from the kitchen to tbs
cellar. The landing OF the front stairway and
the landing from the Kitchen stairway "a In
common; that is. 1t Is the same For the pur,
pose of making this understood / will say
that ono might 60 up the stairway from the
front hall to tbs landing some eight step:
| above and from thence down into the kitchen
or he can turn right facs and go on the land.
ing to the second floor. This part Of the stairs
Is used by the people coming up from the
kitchen as we'll as by those from the front
hall. However, the kitchen stairway is sep.
arased from the landing by a door. There
Is, as well, G door at the fcet Of this kitchen
stairway. In coming down stairs from above
one may turn to the right, open a door and
60 on down into the kitchen, or he may turn
to the left and go down the front stairway
into the hall.
Thus 1t win be seen that we have a com,
bination stairway. II such III may b called.
It is frcnt and rear stairway together, with
separate entrance from both parts Of Che
house, ono from the kitchen and S9us frow The